Heavy fighting between militias with anti-aircraft guns and rocket propelled grenades broke out near the airport of the Libyan capital Tripoli.
Five-times Olympic champion Ian Thorpe has revealed he is gay in a tell-all TV interview.
Former death squad commander Eugene de Kock has not been granted parole for his role in the torture and murder of anti-apartheid activists.
Gunmen believed to be from Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab have struck again in Kenya, killing at least 29 people.
North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles into seas east off its coast, defying a UN ban on the isolated country testing such weapons.
Three Al Jazeera journalists have received sentences of seven to 10 years each after being detained in Egypt for the last six months.
Islamist militants have seized the crossing near the border town of al-Qaim, after battling Iraqi troops.
Islamist militants have killed at least 15 people and torched houses in a second night of attacks on Kenya’s coast.
Ibrahim Mahlab, followed by his ministers, has taken an oath of office in front of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Al-Shabab says it killed at least 49 people in Mpeketoni in response to the deployment of Kenyan troops in Somalia.